Sıla Baştürk Ağıroğlu, CFA

Impact Investing | Investment Research Manager at Rally Assets

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

I am an experienced impact investing professional with a decade of expertise in integrating financial and social considerations into investment strategies. I lead the screening and due diligence of private investment opportunities and monitor both financial and impact performance across portfolios post-investment. The statements, views and opinions expressed in my LinkedIn profile and related articles represent my own views.

Experience

  • Rally Assets (3 yrs 4 mos)
    • Manager, Private Investment Research
      Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      • Leads deal-making, investment underwriting, structuring, negotiation, and execution at the fund investment level across venture capital, private equity, private debt, and real assets. • Serves in governance roles, including participation in Limited Partner Advisory Committees (LPACs), with exposure to fund oversight, governance frameworks, and performance dynamics. • Executes and reviewes fund structures, limited partnership agreements, governance terms, and related investment documentation. • Implementes high-standard impact diligence and monitoring processes to assess investment alignment, outcomes, and ongoing performance. • Manages complex stakeholder relationships with fund managers, institutional partners, and other key counterparties.

    • Senior Associate
      Jan 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

      • Conducting investment screening, due diligence and monitoring for various client mandates , including Social Finance Fund, across multiple asset classes, aligned with UN SDGs • Impact monitoring and reporting to generate decision-making useful insights through visual and written materials and supporting client services team with quarterly and annual impact reports • Leading the project plan and implementation of the first impact software of Rally to centralize impact data management • Implementing and developing an in-house impact measurement and management methodology, incorporating external standards and frameworks such as Impact Management Project and IRIS+ taxonomy

    • Associate
      Apr 2023 - Dec 2023 · 9 mos

      • Impact analysis, measurement and reporting working closely with internal portfolio managers and fund managers of Rally's investees. Managed relationships with 60+ fund managers for impact reporting • Produced and presented annual impact reports for all clients, covering various impact mandates • Led the project plan for the implementation of an investment research and CRM software

  • Data Analyst at Global Footprint Network
    May 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr

    •Producing the 2023 Edition of the National Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts using large databases from the World Bank, International Energy Agency, UN agencies and IMF • Developing the first analytical forecast methodology for the carbon footprint of 160 countries

  • Analyst, Sustainable Infrastructure at EBRD
    Sep 2017 - Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    • Core responsibility focused on project finance of greenfield renewable energy and utility distribution projects. Work covered the financing of over 1 GW of renewable assets through project finance loans, equity investments and corporate bond issuances • Delivering executive-level internal approval documentation and financial models to senior management at all stages of the transaction: origination, due diligence, legal documentation, closing and monitoring • Conducting investment screening for alignment with the green and social transition mandates • Developing financial models from scratch, reviewing and revising the third-party models for valuation and sensitivity analysis

  • Global Emerging Markets Equity Analyst at UBP - Union Bancaire Privée
    Jul 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Building comprehensive valuation models to provide investment advice • Conducting buy-side equity research to provide investment recommendations to the portfolio managers